Monday, January 20, 2014

C. S. Lewis is one of the most quoted authors online. This top 100 list is a compilation of the most retweeted and repinned quotes shared by CSLewisDaily. CS Lewis Daily is also on Google+ and Facebook.

1. Brave "Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (1966)

2. Joy “Joy is the serious business of heaven.” Letters to Malcolm (1964)

3. Honor "We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” The Abolition of Man (1943)

4. Goodness “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” The Great Divorce (1945)

18. Good vs. Bad “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” Mere Christianity (1952)

19. Change “Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...” Prince Caspian (1951)

20. Behavior "When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world." Mere Christianity (1952)

21. Conceit "If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed." Mere Christianity (1952)

22. Love "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." God In The Dock (1970)

23. Mirrors "We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us." The Four Loves (1960)

24. Wants “All get what they want; they do not always like it.” The Magician's Nephew (1955)

25. Reality "[Reality] is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect." Mere Christianity (1952)

26. Pure in Heart “It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.” The Problem of Pain (1940)

27. Fidelity "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.” Mere Christianity (1952)

28. Narnia "All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” The Last Battle (1956)

29. Truth "Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth." C.S. Lewis: An examined life (2007)

30. Family "The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal." The Weight of Glory (1949)

32. Love "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." The Problem of Pain (1940)

33. Miracles “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” God In The Dock (1970)

34. Aslan "This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.” The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

35. Peace "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." Mere Christianity” (1952)

36. Give “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” Mere Christianity (1952)

37. Beauty "We do not want merely to see beauty . . . We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." Transposition and Other Addresses (1949)

38. Dependent "You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God." Mere Christianity (1952)

39. Perspective “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” The Magician's Nephew (1955)

40. Warning! "Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar." The Screwtape Letters (1942)

41. Temptation “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good." Mere Christianity (1952)

42. Friends “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” The Four Loves (1960)

43. Clean and Bright “The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred” Mere Christianity (1952)

44. Compliment "It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed" Reflections on the Psalms (1964)

45. God's Glory “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” The Problem of Pain (1940)